Ideas for two boarding displays at child level?

Question

I am helping reorganize a nursery class for 2-3 y.o. in the messy room (lunch, and art activities) there are two boards that are from the floor to the knee or thigh height, they can not be moved as they are part of the furniture that separates the room, what kind of displays can I put?

in the same room I have already designed a place for the children photos, and birthdays, and I am unsure if a board with "the class golden rules" will go unnoticed there.

any sugestions for something bright and nice and not too seasonal?

thanks!

Answer 1

What about a healthy eating display for when its lunch time! You can have pictures of different fruits, veg etc blown up for kids to look at and discuss. you could always make it into a kind of 'menu board' eg: todays snack is "raisons" , "banana", "water" etc...can have a clock so kids can recognise that snack has a time within the setting and begins introducing number and concept of time for older ones. I dont know how you have lunch in your setting but the chidlren in ours have rolling snack so they choose when to come up and have their snack...so the self-register-when they are hungry they take their name to the table, choose a chair to place name on and then go wash their hands, you could also have a 'regsitration' type board for when they have eaten/drunk and maybe a part where children place their name or photo if they had a healthy drink like water that day!

Or-it can be a display board for an art project-eg: nursery rhyme-you can make art project such as humpty dumpty and the kids make things to be stuck on the board and adult can print out labels and the rhyme to stick on for literacy.

Otherwise it can just be a show case for the childrens art work...somewhere they can show it off, and be used as stimulatous for other childrens work.

Answer 2

food

Answer 3

An interactive board!

Textures:

We are doing caterpillars/butterflies and I had made a small version of a board I had done in previous years.  I used small cardboard circles and added different textures, yarn, sand, plain glue (hardens clear and smooth), aluminum foil, glitter glue, etc. and made it like a caterpillar. If it is a big space I suggest pizza circles :-)  

We did a flower cooperative art project onto a green poster board and it turned out great.  You could do something similar to your bulletin board. I had basic flower shapes and various textured materials.  Each child chose 5 shapes and did them each a different color.  (We had a song that we used with your flower "garden" :-)) .  We still have the display up and the children still go and touch the flowers.  They especially like the "Xmas bow and pom pom flowers."

Numbers/Alphabet- tactile numbers across the top and number sets at the bottom.  Attach yarn/string at the numbers and use velcro or something similar to allow them to match the sets.  Same with alphabet.

Shapes:  Basic shapes on the bottom to match actual objects or prisms at the bottom.

A Writing board:  bulletin board paper on the board and attach markers, large crayons, etc to the sides with sting (works better to tape the tied end onto the writing utensil).  At this age it works okay to have a basket or a cup near by as well.  They usually remember to place them back in their container and not wander the room with them.

Children's artwork display.

Putting the rules there should work okay.  It's great to have them right at the level so you can help the children read them when necessary :-)

Place a piece of contact paper sticky side out onto the board and have the children find things (or provide foamies) that will stick there.

Use it for a place to do class graphs... 2 and 3 year olds benefit for actively creating graphs.  We recently did one with birds.  I had cut out color birds and hid them around the room.  We found them and glue them onto a bar graph.

A theme board:  Make one of the a theme board with realistic pictures and simple words to promote literacy.  Add a theme related pointer and watch the children become "teachers".  

A Collage board:  At this age you should have begun scissor activities already.  I find that having a pool and scrap paper, textured paper, magazines, scissors and closer to the end of the year "crazy" scissors (craft scissors) is a chosen activity by many.  They sit in the pool and cut to their heart's content.  They can use glue sticks and paste their cuttings onto the board.  It's really neat to do black paper as a background!  Or use one color for the background and provide a complentary color (blue/orange, red/green, etc.) for the paper available.

Use it for a sign in... this is a great name recognition actvity and you can change it with your theme.

Guess I could go on but those should give you an idea and maybe be used for a jumping board!  Have fun.

Answer 4

Get the kids to paint pictures for the board. Choose a topic (animals, the sea, handprints,potato cut prints...) or anything they want.

You may need to (help) stick the pictures together on a large piece of card/pieces of card to make a collage before putting up on your boards.

Answer 5

Texture display that the children can touch and describe the different textures. You could ask the children to help you choose different materials with a variety of textures and use some words to describe the textures. Another idea would be a peek a boo display, with different objects behind little doors like in the book dear zoo or spot books.

Another idea is to put photos of the children's family and houses etc, does mean you are reliant on waiting for the families to bring in the photos though but is a lovely display when finished. One more idea for you....Use it as a mirrored area so the children can look at themselves, put up different coloured lenses and p[lastic mirrors convex and concave to create different reflections. Best of luck..

Answer 6

Maybe you could let the children paint the boards. Or you could use it as a place for them to hang their own artwork. Adding a magnetic board would be fun too (though you would probably want big magnets for any of the kids young enough to be putting small objects in their mouths).

Answer 7

you could cover the board in flannel and buy/make flannel pieces for the kids (and you) to use.  you can do basic shapes, story pieces, their names, alphabet letters, numbers, etc.

Answer 8

paint it with chalkboard paint and let the kids write on it.